If you anticipate it you pad additional 0s:
1.009.005
1.014.006
1.128.341
Eeek, now that's really ugly.
Type these into Excel and see how they sort:
1.9.5
1.14.6
1.22.8
Which just proves nothing. In this case it just does some alpha sort (or possibly decimal sort on the first part, but both are irrelevant)
I see the merit in both ways, but I think my preference is more straightforward. My evidence is Gulliver, who misunderstood as well.
Should we make a poll? And is there a theorem saying that when most people think something is right, it's true, or?